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A. FISCHER. v

ASH CAN.

Patented .zxg' 1 896.

A TTHNEY.

UNITED v STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH FISCHER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, AS SIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTI-IS TO ISAAC DURLAOH ANDl SARAH DURLAOH, OF SAME PLACE.

ASH-CAN.

,SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 562,176, dated .Tune 16, 1896.

Application iiled March 20, 1896.

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, ADOLPH FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in ash-cans, the object of the same being to provide an article of this kind which shall be cheap to manufacture, and at the same time more durable and serviceable than the receptacles which have heretofore been devised and employed -for this purpose; and with these ends in view my invention consistsA in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View in perspective of an ash can or barrel constructed in accord ance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4. 4 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a receptacle preferably made of sheet metal of cylindrical form, and of any desired size or dimensions.

To the upper outer edge of the receptacle A is secured the met-al ring or band B, eX- tending slightly above the extreme edge of said vessel A for the purpose of preventing the same from becoming bent or injured.

To the ring or band B are secured the upper ends of the vertical protecting ribs or braces O, the latter being preferably made of metal and having their said upper ends iiattened or widened to receive the bolts or rivets a, which preferably pass through said ribs, ring or band B, and the metal of which :the receptacle A is formed, thus holding the several parts securely together, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

The ribs or braces O are preferably made of flat metal and placed on edge, thus presenting their greatest strength in the direction in which the strain is apt to be imposed Serial No. 584,028. v(No model.)

ends of the horizontal arms being flattened or widened, as in the case of their upper ends, for receiving the bolts or rivets c, passing through the same and through the bottom b for securing the same in place.

The ribs or braces O are made of such width and so placed or located that that section of metal of which the can or receptacle A is made, and which is included between any two adjacent ribs, will lie in a plane below that in which the upper edges of said two adjacent ribs lie, this construction and arrangement of parts fully protecting the metal body of the receptacle, and preventing the same from becoming dented or otherwise injured.

By continuing the protecting-ribs at right angles to their length and extending the same to within a short distance of the center of the bottom of the can or vessel the latter will, when placed upright, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, rest upon the edges of the lower radial arms or ribs, thus preventing the bottom of the can from becoming dented or injured, and by forming the two arms, that is, the vertical and horizontal arms, of one continuous piece of flat metal, the entire strain will be imposed uponthe latter in the direction of its strength and not upon the lower portion of the metal of the vessel, which is necessarily the case when the two arms are made of separate and distinct pieces of metal.

I am aware that cans or vessels have heretofore had their sides protected by means of ribs or braces, and hence I make no broad claim to such; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters A can or vessel constructed of sheet metal and of cylindrical form and having a ring or band extending around the upper end there- Signed at New York, in the county of New York and Sttte of New York, this 13th day of March, A. l). 1806.

ADOLPH FISCHER.

of, and ribs or braces connected with said rin g or band, and extending down the sides of said Vessel, :tud to or Within a short distance of the center of the bottom thereof, said ribs or braces being made of flat metal placed on edge, and transversely Vflattened at their ends, substantially as described.

lVituesses:

JoHN F. FLAGG, F. S. KENNEDY. 

